Kashmir to Host First International Literary Fest

The first ever international Kashmir literary festival, on the lines of the Jaipur Literary Festival, is to be organized in the Valley this year, an official said.

"In an effort to bring Kashmir on the international literary scene, 'Adbee Markaz Kamraz' (AMK) will organize the first ever international-level Kashmir Literary Festival (KLF) in Srinagar this year," Shujaat Bukhari, general secretary of a local literary forum, said.

"The festival will be on the lines of the Jaipur Literary Festival and the Karachi Literary Festival held in recent past.

"This will be the first of its kind literary carnival in Kashmir, in which authors around the world will be invited to share their works with the local authors," Bukhari said.

AMK is in the process of finalizing negotiations with some independent bodies to help make the event a grand success.

Kashmir literary festival is an effort of the AMK, the oldest and the largest literary federation of literary and cultural bodies of Jammu and Kashmir, to play its part in the renaissance of cultural and literary legacy of the state.